Talk:US military: Human Terrain Team Handbook, Sep 2008

From WikiLeaks

What is wrong in it? Counter insurgency has to take help from science. Cultural groups which are unknown to us or those with which we are not much familiar, and our forces are fighting them, they need such classified information. There is a need to work out scientific causes of insurgency and terrorism. Any such science based effort is deemed to be anti-human right. But it may be the need of the time. War and military intelligence gathering is a very tedious effort. It requires understanding of the hostile locality. Fight against terrorism has to incorporate such type of intelligence gathering. We may criticize it but more effort needs to be put into streamlining it.